Google targets JavaScript with Dart

John P. Mello Jr. |
Oct. 11, 2011

Dart is squarely aimed at providing an alternative to JavaScript, which has become the "lingua franca" for developers of web applications, but a nettle to Google.

It has been estimated that the World Wide Web accounts for only a quarter of the traffic on the Internet, a number that continues to decline. If something like Dart can bring innovators back to the Web, maybe it can reverse that decline and silence those who have already written the Web's obituary.